Learning for Life
GRADE 12 SESSION 6 UNIT 1
Lesson Title: Self-Assessment of Self-Management/Study and Test-Taking Skills
Time Required: 1-2 class periods
Content Standards:
Academic Development
A. Students will acquire the attitudes, knowledge and skills contributing to
effective learning in school and across the lifespan.
Indicators:
 Students will achieve educational levels necessary to teach, maintain, and
continue with individual life-long learning goals.
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Goal 1: Gather, analyze, and apply information and ideas.
Goal 2: Communicate effectively within and beyond the classroom.
Goal 3: Recognize and solve problems.
Goal 4: Make decisions and act as responsible members of society.
GOAL: Students will exhibit self-management
skills necessary for educational achievement.
Activity Statements:
How do you rate yourself? Show me 5, 4, 3, 2, 1 (5 being the highest, 1
being the lowest) in each area by holding up your number of self-rating. Self
Management “Show Me …” Study Skills “Show Me…” Testing Taking Skills
“Show Me…”
Materials:
9-12 AD 4 Summative Evaluation
Procedures:
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Instructor Procedures
1. The counselor will give each senior
Part One of the “9-12 Summative SelfEvaluation for CG 4.” Part One allows
for each senior to rate himself or
herself in the areas of selfmanagement, study skills, and testtaking skills.
Student Involvement
1. Students will rate themselves Good,
Average, or Poor for 27 skills they have
learned throughout their educational
experience.
2. In pairs students will describe their
strongest and weakest skills and for
discuss the implications for their
success with their partners.
2. The counselor will lead a brief
discussion of the skills that were rated
as the highest and which were rated as 3. Students will give examples of times
the lowest.
in which they used their stronger skills
to be a successful learner as well as
3. The counselor will administer Part
times they were not successful
Two of the 9-12 Summative Selfbecause their skills were not as strong
Evaluation for CG 4. Part Two allows
or were not acquired. Students will
each student to identify and discuss
complete a chart on which they list
situations in which specific skills were skills that will be important to them
used AND situations in which he or she for their post-secondary choices.
didn’t have the specific skills to be
successful.
4. Students will volunteer responses
during the discussion and brainstorm
4. The counselor will lead a brief
possible ways to improve their weaker
discussion about skills successful
skills.
learners use. During the discussion,
stress the need to continue to
5. Students will write a personal essay
maintain strong skills as well as
in which they hypothesize how the
develop weaker skills in order to be a
skills they have learned in their
successful life-long learner.
educational experience will help them
achieve their post-secondary goals and
5. The counselor will administer Part
continue to be a life long learner.
Three of the 9-12 Summative SelfEvaluation For CG 4. Part Three
encourages learners to project how
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they will use the three skill areas (SelfManagement, Study Skills, Test-taking
Skills) to achieve post-secondary goals
and life-long learning.
6. The counselor will work with the
Communication Arts teacher to devise
a possible grading system for the
personal essays. It is recommended
that the counselor collect the CG 4
Summative Self-Evaluation, copy them
and place one in the student’s
permanent folder and return the other
to student.
Discussion:
How do self-management, study, and test-taking skills influence life long
learning and your attainment of personal goals?
Additional Resources:
Adapted from
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Extension Activities:
One possible follow-up activity would be for the teachers to discuss skills that
students feel comfortable using when they are out of high school and skills that
they feel they should continue to develop. The teacher may be able to
incorporate these skills into future lessons to help the students continue to
develop.
Additional Lesson Information:
Enduring Life Skill(s)
X Perseverance
Integrity
X Problem-Solving
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Courage
Respect
Compassion
X Goal-Setting
Tolerance
Responsibility
This lesson supports the development of skills in the following academic content
areas.
Academic Content Area(s)
Specific Skill(s)
X Communication Arts
1. Speaking and writing standard English
(including grammar, usage, punctuation,
spelling, capitalization)
4. Writing formally (such as reports, narratives,
essays) and informally (such as outlines, notes)
Mathematics
X Social Studies
7. The use of tools of social science inquiry (such
as surveys, statistics, maps, documents)
Science
Health/Physical Education
Fine Arts
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